Architectonics of semiosis
By: Edwina Taborsky.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Semaphores and signs
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Semiotics -- Philosophy.
Description: Societies are understood as architectures for the systematic transformation of energy into information/matter, and, using this hypothesis, are examined within two architectural frames - that of the unilevel and the bilevel society. Architectonics of Semiosis lifts semiotics from its literary-linguistic sphere and expands biophysics from a materialist focus to explore the interrelationships of these two forces of organization within the evolving complexities of sociocognitive forms of order.

This interdisciplinary work offers original examinations of societies as complex codifications of energy, and of human beings as integrated aspects of larger and more complex codifications of energy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-200) and indexes.